..This study reports the first national data regarding hospices' self-reported implementation of the NQF preferred practices and identifies hospice characteristics associated with more comprehensive implementation...

..We estimated the proportion of the population living in communities within 30 and 60 minutes driving time of a hospice...

Improving access to hospice care: informing the debate

Melissa D A CarlsonBrookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USAJ Palliat Med 11:438-43. 2008

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Regulating palliative care: the case of hospice

Melissa D A CarlsonBrookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USAJ Pain Symptom Manage 36:107-16. 2008

..It provides valuable insights regarding the potential role of regulation in standardizing the quality of palliative care across the increasingly diverse palliative care programs developing outside of hospice...

Impact of hospice disenrollment on health care use and medicare expenditures for patients with cancer

..Indeed, we would argue that the growing acceptance of the culture-change movement centered on elder-directed goals in nursing homes is promising evidence of the goodness-of-fit of palliative care principles in the long-term care setting...

..The authors examine the association between patient length of hospice enrollment and major depressive disorder (MDD) among the surviving primary family caregivers 13 months after the patient's death...

Depression among surviving caregivers: does length of hospice enrollment matter?

Research Grants1

..This information is critical for understanding disparities in use of hospice and for informing policies to increase the availability of hospice to patients with terminal illness and their families. [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable]..